Seventh patient ‘cured’ of HIV: why scientists are excited

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A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.

A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant1. But the man, who has been virus-free for close to six years, is only the second person to receive stem cells that are not resistant to the virus.

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